At about 1 a.m.
on 14 January two unidentified people assaulted an activist of the
"European Belarus" Yuliya Stsiapanava. They threw her in
snow and cut her hair.

Yuliya's friend Volha Nikalajchyk
wrote about it in her Facebook
account. The assault took place near her house when the girl was
going home from the bus stop. The strangers used obscene insults,
commenting on her political views. They also smashed
her lip.

Yu. Stsiapanava commented on the night assault to
ERB:
"I was going home. Two of them went out from round the corner.
One of them seized me by the hands and the other cut my hair very
short. Then they threw me in a snowdrift. They threatened me and demanded
that I stop gathering aid for victims of political repressions, which
I have been doing with the assistance of social networks.

Yuliya
Stsiapanava received anonymous threats before the assault. She
believes it was from security services. Her Facebook account has been
repeatedly hacked and threat letters have been thrown into her
postbox.